Monday, June 28, 2010

Growing pains afflict HTML5 standardization | Deep Tech - CNET News

A timely reality check for a work in process 

Listening to marketing messages from companies such as Apple and Google, one might think HTML5, the next-generation Web page standard, is ready to take the Net by storm.

But the words of those producing the specification show an HTML governance process that can be stormy, fractious, and far from settled down. The World Wide Web Consortium's return to HTML standardization after years of absence has produced tensions with the more informal Web Hypertext Application Working Group (WHATWG) that shouldered the HTML burden during that absence.

Growing pains afflict HTML5 standardization | Deep Tech - CNET News

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